The Martians
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| "The Martians" | |||||||
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| Part of the Mars trilogy | |||||||
| A short story collection by Kim Stanley Robinson | |||||||
 Cover of the 1999 Voyager edition, cover art by Peter Elson | |||||||
| First published | April 1999 | ||||||
| Pages | 400 (Voyager 1999 edition) | ||||||
| ISBN # | 978-0-00-225358-1 | ||||||
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The Martians is a companion volume to the three volumes of the Mars trilogy. It is a short story collection, consisting of stories, poems or essays relating to Mars. Some of the stories were published before. Some stories do not take place in the same universe as the Mars trilogy; some others, while they share the same characters, are evidently alternate timelines to the trilogy. It consists of the following stories:
- Michel In Antarctica
- Exploring Fossil Canyon
- The Archaea Plot
- The Way The Land Spoke To Us
- Maya And Desmond
- Four Teleological Trails
- Discovering Life
- Coyote Makes Trouble
- Michel In Provence
- Green Mars
- Arthur Sternbach Brings The Curveball To Mars
- Salt and Fresh
- The Constitution Of Mars
- Some Worknotes And Commentary On The Constitution, by Charlotte Dorsa Brevia
- Jackie On Zo
- Keeping The Flame
- Saving Noctis Dam
- Big Man In Love
- An Argument For The Deployment Of All Safe Terraforming Technologies
- Selected Abstracts From The Journal Of Areological Studies
- Odessa
- Sexual Dimorphism
- Enough Is As Good As A Feast
- What Matters
- Coyote Remembers
- Sax Moments
- The Names Of The Canals
- The Soundtrack
- A Martian Romance
- If Wang Wei Lived On Mars And Other Poems
- Purple Mars
[edit] Publication History
- Voyager, April 1999
- Bantam Spectra, September 1999
- Voyager, September 1999
- Easton Press, 1999
- Science Fiction Book Club, October 1999
- Voyager, April 2000
- Presses de la Cité, as Les Martiens (French Translation), September 2000
- Libre Expression, as Les Martiens (French Translation), 2000
- Bantam Spectra, October 2000
- France Loisirs, as Les Martiens (French Translation), 2001
- CNIB, audio book, 2002
- Heyne, as Die Marsianer (German Translation), September 2002
- Bantam Spectra e-Book, May 2003
- Minotauro, as Los Marcianos (Spanish Translation), October 2003
- Pocket, as Les Martiens (French Translation), May 2007
- Kabalcı Yayınevi, as Marslılar (Turkish Translation), forthcoming (?)
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[edit] Resources
- Reviews at KimStanleyRobinson.info
- The Martians at The Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Martians at Google Books
| The Mars trilogy | ||
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| Characters | Principal: John Boone · Frank Chalmers · Nadia Cherneshevsky · Ann Clayborne · Michel Duval · Nirgal · Art Randolph · Sax Russell · Maya Toitovna · Zo
Supporting: Hiroko Ai · Arkady Bogdanov · Peter Clayborne · Desmond "Coyote" Hawkins · Jackie · Kasei | 
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| Places | Stellar bodies: Terra · Mars (Phobos, Deimos, Clarke) · Solar system
Martian settlements: Underhill · Burroughs · Sheffield · Sabishii · Zygote · Dorsa Brevia · Odessa · Da Vinci | |
| Groups | First Hundred · Areophany · UNOMA/UNTA · Reds (Kakaze, Marsfirst) · Greens · Free Mars · Praxis · The underground | |
| Events | Timeline · 1st Revolution · Dorsa Brevia Conference · 2nd Revolution · Pavonis Mons Congress · 3rd Revolution | |
| Concepts | Glossary · Terraforming · Areoformation · Space elevator · Longevity treatment · Eco-economics · Ecopoesis | |
| Red Mars · Green Mars · Blue Mars · The Martians | ||
